Clinical Nurse Manager-CNM

Shannon Lodge are currently recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Manager.

The role of the Clinical Nurse Manager shall be to support the Person in Charge in the clinical and professional leadership of the Care Team and to deliver direct Resident Care.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that the provision of a high standard of care to the resident and families in Shannon Lodge Nursing Home is consistent with the mission, vision, values and strategic plan of Shannon Lodge Nursing Home.
• Ensure recognition of the resident as an individual; ensuring residents’ rights, needs and comfort are given priority during the provision of care.
• Develop relationships with residents, which facilitates resident autonomy, informed choice and evidence-based decision-making.
• Promote and maintain resident safety and provide quality care through respecting the privacy, dignity, and rights of the resident.
• Maximise the residents’ capacity to exercise personal autonomy and choice.
• Collaborate, consult and communicate with staff regarding the appropriate nursing assessments, diagnosis, planning, interventions, and evaluation of resident care.
• Ensure that the resident is safeguarded from physical or sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material abuse, neglect or acts of omission, or discriminatory abuse, through deliberate intent, negligence or ignorance by others within the Shannon Lodge Nursing Home. Where a concern arises for a resident’s safety, all reasonable and proportionate interim measures are taken to protect them pending the outcome of any assessment or investigation.
• Ensure the preparation of an individual care plan, based on the resident’s assessment, is no later than 48 hours after that resident’s admission/
• Ensure the formal review of resident’s health at intervals not exceeding 4 months, including review and update as deemed necessary of the resident’s individual care plans. This review shall be completed in conjunction with the resident concerned and, where appropriate, with the resident’s family members/representative.
• Support, and work towards, a restraint free environment. Manage and respond to behaviour that is challenging, in so far as is practical, in a manner that is not restrictive.
• Responsible to meet the aims of dementia/cognitive impairment care within the residential home.
• Coordinate and implement the resident’s palliative and end-of-life care needs in so far as possible. Following the death of a resident, ensure that appropriate arrangements are in accordance with the resident’s wishes in so far as they are known and are practical.
• Act as an advocate for the resident to provide support, reassurance and ensuring their views and wishes are taken into consideration.
• Responsible for completion of audits and follow through with implementation of action plans.
• Supporting staff in completion of competencies and development of skills.

Essential Requirements

• A registered General Nurse or Psychiatric Nurse on the Register of Nurses held by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland or be entitled to be so registered.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Minimum three years post graduate experience .
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the ageing process.

Desirable Requirements

• Post Graduate Diploma in Gerontology.
• Management qualifications.
• Gerontology experience.
• Experience in Psycho Geriatric Nursing Care/Psychiatry/Adult Disabled.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the ageing process.
• IT Skills.
• Experience in psycho geriatric nursing care/psychiatry/adult disabled.